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Minister Can’t Confirm A Single Contact With Covid Tracing App
Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 3:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Minister of Health is unable to say whether any contacts have been traced though the Government’s Covid-19 app – proving what a failure the Government has been at contact tracing”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today in Parliament ... More >>
Just A Gas Case, Prime Minister?
Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 9:15 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealand cannot get its economy off the ground and offer opportunity to the next generation if the Prime Minister constantly undermines the rule of law,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “When the Prime Minister walked into a press conference ... More >>
Government Loses Control Of Auckland Cluster
Monday, 24 August 2020, 2:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders will pay the price for the Government losing control of the Auckland Covid-19 cluster,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “With eight new cases today, contact tracing has failed to find the perimeter in time, despite Aucklanders dutifully ... More >>
Continued Restrictions Will Be A Government Failure
Monday, 24 August 2020, 10:38 am | ACT New Zealand
“While Jacinda Ardern has been using the Ministry of Health’s contact tracing centre to film election ads, the Government has failed to stamp out a single outbreak of Covid-19,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government set itself a three-day ... More >>
Regulatory Constitution Would Have Prevented Oil And Gas Ban
Monday, 24 August 2020, 10:20 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government wouldn’t be in court today defending its oil and gas ban if it had followed ACT’s Regulatory Constitution,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This Government has been a shocker when it comes to defining the problem it wants ... More >>
Health Bureaucracy Strangling Businesses
Sunday, 23 August 2020, 4:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Ministry of Health’s bureaucratic exemption process for travelling in and out of Auckland is strangling local businesses,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Businesses in Warkworth and Pukekohe, which are located just inside Auckland, ... More >>
Prime Minister Politicising The Public Service
Saturday, 22 August 2020, 5:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister is politicising the public service by making Labour Party campaign videos featuring public servants,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s completely unacceptable for campaign videos to be filmed inside the Ministry of Health ... More >>
WHO Director-General: Lockdowns Unsustainable
Saturday, 22 August 2020, 2:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“A consensus is growing for a Wellbeing Approach to tackling COVID-19 with the Director-General of the World Health Organisation calling lockdowns unsustainable,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. Yesterday, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said : ‘We ... More >>
It Didn't Have To Be Like This
Friday, 21 August 2020, 2:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The continuation of Auckland’s lockdown is a costly disappointment that could have been avoided with ACT’s wellbeing approach,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If the wellbeing lens had been applied, the Government would have spent the past ... More >>
RSE Scheme Rotten
Friday, 21 August 2020, 9:21 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s RSE (Recognised Season Employer) scheme is wrongheaded and ineffective and in need of a major overhaul, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I have repeatedly raised concerns with the Government, in particular former Immigration ... More >>
Consensus Grows For A Wellbeing Approach To COVID-19
Friday, 21 August 2020, 9:16 am | ACT New Zealand
“Consensus is growing for a Wellbeing Approach to tackling COVID-19 with two prominent New Zealanders writing in the New Zealand Medical Journal this morning that ‘there’s got to be a better way,’” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The University of ... More >>
ACT’s Wellbeing Response To Covid-19
Thursday, 20 August 2020, 4:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT has today announced its Covid-19 Response Policy which has a focus on wellbeing”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has had a strategy for dealing with Covid-19 under its nose all along. A wellbeing approach weighs up all of the costs ... More >>
Govt Didn’t Read Testing Strategy Or Lied About It
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 6:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Either the Government didn’t know what was in its national testing strategy, or it lied to New Zealanders about the extent of border testing,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Prime Minister and the Health Minister have insisted ... More >>
Govt Believes It Is Above The Law
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 5:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s response to a ruling on the Level 4 lockdown suggests that it believes it’s above the law,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. The High Court has ruled that the first nine days of the Level 4 lockdown wasn’t mandated by law ... More >>
Winston Peters A Day Late And A Dollar Short On Protecting Our Borders
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 4:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Winston Peters is headline hunting and grandstanding after doing nothing in Cabinet for the past six months," according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “If a new border protection force is 'a major priority' for Mr Peters, he should have said ... More >>
PM Sat On Critical Information For Nine Days
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 2:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister has today admitted that she sat on information for nine days from health officials that people working at the border didn’t want to be tested,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I asked Jacinda Ardern in Parliament today when ... More >>
Skills Shortage In Labour Cabinet
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 12:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
“A skills shortage in the Labour Cabinet has resulted in part-time Ministers making catastrophic mistakes,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “We have a part time Health Minister who’s allowed Covid-19 to breach the border. He can’t give ... More >>
Government’s Border Testing A Circus
Tuesday, 18 August 2020, 12:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s border testing regime is a complete circus,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. Mr Seymour was responding to the news that a maintenance worker at the Rydges Hotel managed isolation facility has tested positive for Covid-19 ... More >>
Principals Should Open Schools To Year 12 & 13
Tuesday, 18 August 2020, 9:12 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour is calling on Auckland principals to do the right thing and open their schools to senior high school students. “Since Auckland went into lockdown I have said that students from years 12 and 13 should be allowed back to ... More >>
Wage Subsidy Shouldn’t Create False Economy
Monday, 17 August 2020, 2:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s announcement on the wage subsidy today must help businesses on the edge, but investing in better public health would have been ten times cheaper,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The latest lockdown is the result of the Government’s ... More >>
